Wikidata:WikiProject Bulgaria/Administrative Entities

Administrative territorial entities of Bulgaria

Typing and Identification

The administrative territorial entities of Bulgaria are of the following types

• oblast of Bulgaria (Q209824) - 28 instances
• municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) - 265 instances
• kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) - 3041 instances
• municipal district of Bulgaria (Q7553685) - 35 instances

Settlements can be city in Bulgaria (Q89487741) and village of Bulgaria (Q15630849) which are both subclass of (P279) of populated place of Bulgaria (Q95993392) .

A small number of settlement formation in Bulgaria (Q127388602) correspond to settled territories outside the construction boundaries of settlements.

All the entities are identified with BG EKATTE place ID (P3990). Both the administrative and geographic identifiers are available and referenced to the relevant authoritative tables in NRPP (Q3658617)

BG EKATTE place ID	12084 edit applies to part populated place of Bulgaria 1 reference stated in NRPP retrieved 10 July 2024 reference URL https://www.nsi.bg/nrnm/ekatte/territorial-units add reference SOF46-35 edit applies to part kmetstvo of Bulgaria 2 references stated in NRPP retrieved 10 July 2024 reference URL https://www.nsi.bg/nrnm/ekatte/town-halls add reference
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The 31 constituency of the National Assembly of Bulgaria (Q43791141) are linked with their constituting entities with associated electoral district (P7938)

Relations

Hierarchy and inclusion

The main hierarchical relation is located in the administrative territorial entity (P131). Note that the hierarchy does not always have the same number of levels.

• In most cases it consists of 3 levels kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) --> municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) --> oblast of Bulgaria (Q209824)
• In Stolichna Municipality (Q4442915) a number of kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) are also part of a municipal district of Bulgaria (Q7553685), such is the example of Voluyak (Q2455639)
• TODO rephrase not true any more! A number of village of Bulgaria (Q15630849) are part of a single kmetstvo of Bulgaria (Q4224624) or directly part of the municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) (e.g Donchovtsi (Q1079932),Plachkovtsi (Q406335))
• capital (P36) and capital of (P1376) are consistent

Geography

• All the entities have high quality coordinate location (P625)
• municipal district of Bulgaria (Q7553685), municipality of Bulgaria (Q1906268) and oblast of Bulgaria (Q209824) have OpenStreetMap relation ID (P402), which can be used to recover the corresponding polygons from OpenStreetMap (Q936), using the API or a service like polygons.openstreetmap.fr

Population

population (P1082) from 2020 is available for all entities. In the future this will be automatically updated by User:BGPopBot every three months with fresh data from ESGRAON (Q12279344)

Maintenance

Queries and counts related to maintaining these entities can be found here: Wikidata:WikiProject_Bulgaria/Administrative_Entities/Maintenance